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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump is pulling U.S. out of Paris climate deal — President Trump has made his decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the decision. Details on how the withdrawal will be executed are being worked out by a small team including EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump expected to withdraw from Paris climate deal — President Donald Trump is planning to pull the United States out of the Paris climate change agreement, according to a White House official, in a move that is certain to infuriate America's allies across the globe and could destabilize the 2015 accord.
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Trump Poised to Pull U.S. From Paris Climate Accord — President Trump was poised Wednesday to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement, two officials with knowledge of the decision said, making good on a campaign pledge but severely weakening the landmark 2015 climate change accord …
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New York Times:
Trump Advisers Wage Tug of War Before Decision on Climate Deal — WASHINGTON — A divided White House staff, anxious corporate executives, lawmakers and foreign leaders are fiercely competing for President Trump's ear this week as he nears a decision on whether to pull the United States …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's White House bake-off for chief of staff — As a long-expected shake-up begins in the West Wing, President Trump has been asking key Republicans for their opinions about two possible replacements as White House chief of staff: Gary Cohn, a moderate voice who's his current economic adviser …
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BuzzFeed:
No One Wants The Big White House Job That Just Opened Up
No One Wants The Big White House Job That Just Opened Up
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Kushner tries to pretend everything's normal
Kushner tries to pretend everything's normal
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Aides ‘Dreading’ a Return of ‘Trainwreck’ Corey Lewandowski
Trump Aides ‘Dreading’ a Return of ‘Trainwreck’ Corey Lewandowski
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Daily Wire, Axios, Raw Story, Politico and ABC News
George Prayias / The Rush Limbaugh Show:
The Republicans Are Roadblocking Trump
The Republicans Are Roadblocking Trump
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump's aides are starting to rival their boss when it comes to praising him — The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights — To most observers, President Trump's first overseas trip was either a moderate success that was at times overshadowed by viral GIFs …
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump's ‘covfefe’ heard around the world
The Note: Trump's ‘covfefe’ heard around the world
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TMZ.com:
Kathy Griffin Beheads Donald Trump in Shocking Photo Shoot (PHOTO + VIDEO)
Kathy Griffin Beheads Donald Trump in Shocking Photo Shoot (PHOTO + VIDEO)
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Spicer's ‘middle finger’ to the press
Spicer's ‘middle finger’ to the press
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Support for Trump impeachment rises — An increasing percentage of voters want Congress to impeach President Donald Trump — even if they don't think Trump has committed the “high crimes and misdemeanors” the Constitution requires. — Forty-three percent of voters want Congress …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
‘COVFEFE’: Trump's late-night tweet goes viral …
‘COVFEFE’: Trump's late-night tweet goes viral …
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Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
Voters Show Growing Appetite for Trump Impeachment
Voters Show Growing Appetite for Trump Impeachment
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Politicus USA
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll- May 2017: The AHCA's Proposed Changes to Health Care — Ashley Kirzinger, Bianca DiJulio, Liz Hamel, Elise Sugarman, and Mollyann Brodie — KEY FINDINGS: — With Congress currently discussing the American Health Care Act (AHCA), a plan that would repeal …
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Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Political Wire and Washington Times
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Page Six:
Scott Pelley out of ‘CBS Evening News’ … Scott Pelley is out at “CBS Evening News,” Page Six has exclusively learned. — Sources tell us that 'Poison Pelley's' office was being cleared out on Tuesday while the anchor was away on an assignment for the network's news magazine “60 Minutes.”
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Scott Pelley out at ‘CBS Evening News’
Scott Pelley out at ‘CBS Evening News’
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Priya Anand / BuzzFeed:
Leaked Internal Documents Show UberPool Was A Cash-Burning Machine — In late 2015, UberPool was losing its home market of San Francisco to Lyft Line. Here's what Uber did to win it back, according to internal company documents. — In summer 2015, about a year after Uber launched …
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
GOP taps anti-Clinton strategy to damage Elizabeth Warren early — BOSTON — Republicans are getting a jump on Elizabeth Warren's 2020 presidential campaign. — The Massachusetts Democrat is preparing to run for re-election to the Senate in 2018 and hasn't said yet whether she'll …
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
What's a ‘Covfefe’? Trump Tweet Unites a Bewildered Nation — WASHINGTON — And on the 132nd day, just after midnight, President Trump had at last delivered the nation to something approaching unity — in bewilderment, if nothing else. — The state of our union was ... covfefe.
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Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Top Defense Contractor Left Sensitive Pentagon Files on Amazon Server With No Password — Sensitive files tied to a US military project were leaked by a multi-billion dollar firm once described as the world's most profitable spy operation, Gizmodo has confirmed.
Bloomberg:
Touting Ties to Trump Is the Only Thing That Unites the Feuding Kushners — David Kocieniewski, Wenxin Fan and David M. Levitt — Heads of the Kushner families' two sides dubbed Cain and Abel — Told to stop, Murray Kushner's company blamed others — Charles and Murray Kushner …
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Wall Street Journal:
America First Doesn't Mean America Alone — We are asking a lot of our allies and partners. But in return the U.S. will once again be a true friend.
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Bret Weinstein / Wall Street Journal:
The Campus Mob Came for Me—and You, Professor, Could Be Next — Whites were asked to leave for a ‘Day of Absence.’ I objected. Then 50 yelling students crashed my class.
Daily Mail:
Philippines president Duterte hits back at Chelsea Clinton — ‘What was your reaction when your father was f***ing Monica Lewinsky?’ Philippines president Duterte hits back at Chelsea Clinton after she criticised his ‘joke’ about troops raping women — Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte angrily hit …
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Jennifer Gould Keil / New York Post:
Hard times hit Billionaire's Row with luxury condo foreclosure — Billionaire's Row is headed for its first foreclosure. — The dubious distinction is going to a stunning apartment on the 56th floor of 157 W. 57th St. — the city's first “billionaire's building,” which is home to the Big Apple's only $100 million condo.
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New York Post:
Huma Abedin has invited Anthony Weiner back home — Just when you thought Huma Abedin finally had enough, the Hillary Clinton aide has invited her admitted sex offender hubby back home again, The Post has learned. — SEE ALSO — Anthony Weiner's long-suffering wife filed for divorce earlier this month …
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Leaked regulation: Trump plans to roll back Obamacare birth control mandate — The administration is mulling broad exemptions from the health law requirement. — The Trump administration is apparently preparing to overhaul Obamacare's birth control mandate, purportedly allowing any employer …
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Talking Points Memo, Shareblue and New York Times
Mike Allen / Axios:
Roger Ailes' last wish: Out-foxing Fox — Before Roger Ailes' death on May 18, he expressed a final wish to some of his few remaining confidants: to get back in the game, with a conservative network that would position itself to the right of Fox News, as his baby became more moderate under the next generation of Murdoch leadership.
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Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal:
Going Out for Lunch Is a Dying Tradition — Americans are skipping lunchtime trips to restaurants at levels not seen in four decades, a result of busier work schedules and the ever-widening cost gap between supermarket food and restaurant meals.
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